The Last Call
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.
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- Cast：
- Irene Azuela , Rebecca Jones , Silvia Pinal , Cecilia Suárez , Jorge Poza , Alfonso Dosal , Mariana Treviño
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
The first must-see film of the year.
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
For the very first time in Mexican contemporary cinema, I see a movie where I actually like each single one of the actors (and actresses, obviously). They are fabulous. They are entirely believable, the reactions are awesome, the characters are not stupid and empty and each single one of them has essence. Hurray for Francisco Franco Alba, the director, that despite of directing loads of characters, he got every single one to stand out over the rest because each one is different and has its own issues, he got it. The cast is of course great, I know many of them from different movies but together create a perfectly realistic and chaotic life of the backstage of the Mexican theater. Some selfish, some junkies, some shy, some kind of divas, some confused, but where the only thing that keeps them together is the willing to see their theater play on a premiere night. And between all this chaos, some of them are really and actually funny, and still, keeping the tone of the movie. I didn't like the script too much though because it takes forever for something to happen and at the end, the premiere, gets to a common place that we've always seen in movies. After everything against them, they finally make it to the premiere night, and the play runs (of course). I think that for once I would have liked something different to happen because the same old ending makes it entirely predictable. Since the very beginning you know that the play is gonna run in the last scene... and it does. But despite this, all the cast gives a very old common place story a lot of flavor, color and funny drama.
